Death (The Four Horsemen, 4)

This series is officially one of my favorite ones. And this book! Oh boy, this book crushed me. I felt my blood bubble, then I had my heart in my throat, then I laughed with tears [there are very few books where I laughed until it hurt :)))], then, by the end of the book and was screaming at it and then I was crying.DEATH IS DEATH! HE'S ENDGAME. He is one of the best characters on my list. He's well written, he does not disappoint and he is eternal! Life is death and death is life. I loved every page and the way Laura wrote Death, and now I mean not as an immortal, but as the very essence of death, it was mind-blowing. I agree with many statements from this book about death and I'm happy to see someone else seeing/writing death like this.I LOVED HAVING ALL 4 HORSEMEN IN ONE BOOK. AND WHAT BETTER BOOK TO HAVE THEM ALL THAN "DEATH", THE LAST STEP IN THE APOCALYPSE! THIS BOOK IS PERFECT! I loved every interaction of the horsemen and I loved every single thing Famine did. :)))) This guy is nuts :))) and I laughed because of him until it hurt. Famine is the same psycho, War is the same bastard hungry for war :)) and Pestilence... I did not expect that and I love him in this book. He is the ONLY ONE who can temper the other three! PERIOD!Now. DEATH. I can't put into words what he made me feel. He is exactly what I wanted from him and even more. He is endless and knows he is FINAL. He's the END. He knows his task and he doesn't want to fail, he doesn't want to make the same "mistake" his brothers did. And is very hard for him to do that. I think he hungers for life, just a glimpse of feeling alive. And when he finds Lazarus, he can hope and it terrifies him. But you don't see this from the beginning. At some point, you start to see through his eyes, and thank you Laura for giving us his POV too. You can see his struggle and also his determination. Like I said in War's book, war and death do go hand in hand. And here you can see Death's inner conflict, he's at war with himself. He kills and he's giving humanity the best death, so to speak. They don't feel pain. It's like dying in your sleep. To the other horsemen, you can see an increasing pain in each step of the apocalypse, but the final one comes, when the actual Death comes, humanity got a peaceful death, a quick one.If the level of pain in dying is nonexisting, the level of excitement and action in this book is magnificent. You can feel the thrill with every page you read.Lazarus is a fighter and she is perfect for Death because she is also determined and knows her task and she also is fighting not just with Death, but with herself too. There was a moment when she started to be annoying and then was the moment of realizing that what's dead should stay dead. That particular scene I think was her lesson. You don't play with life and death and I absolutely loved how Laura wrote that scene. I know it was painful for Lazarus and a horrible moment in her life, but that is a very important lesson and Death let her feel everything. He didn't invade her space, but also he let her experience that lesson on her own. No backup, nobody by her side. Her alone.I recommend this series to everybody. It's absolutely astonishing. Every book has its own charm, and the excitement increases with every page and every book. You don't get to see the same story, you don't get to see a horseman doing what the previous one does. Every horseman is unique and every story it's unique. Laura, Pestilence, Sara, War, Miriam, Famine, Ana, Death, Lazarus, you have taken me on a magnificent journey.

This is one of the best series I've ever read! I could not put it down, reading even at night :) It's totally worth it. I think I will reread it in the future. Laura Thalassa, you have a new fan :) Thanks for your excellent writing and captivating story and interesting characters, I loved all of it :)

ngl, i actually shed a couple of tears reading the epilogue. this was a very nice ending and i still stand by the idea of starting a support group for the wives of the horsemen of the apocalypse.this entire series was fun and very easy to read and i'm sad to let them all go but all good (and entertaining) things must come to an end i guess.

I love Laura Thalassa, and truly anything she writes is an instant buy for me. I loved this series and the characters so much. This book didn’t disappoint. We had been waiting for the arrival of this character for some time and getting the know him better was fun.Thalassa creates complex characters and these two aren’t any different from that mold. Go into their story, and this series with the knowledge that they are nothing like your typical romance. Absolutely loved it.

From the first sentence of this riveting masterpiece, the story hooks you in and takes you for an emotional ride, never letting you go until the last word. Laura Thalassa’s books are always so well written that the characters seem to exist outside the pages of their story and as readers, rather then reading simple words on a page, we are invited spectators at an outside window, hands cupped around our faces, just watching real people live their lives. This is Death, the fourth book in the Four Horsemen series. The characters have dimension and realistic personalities. Death is a horseman of the apocalypse and as such, is not a very likable character. No one is going to feel like cuddling Death. Lazarus is not a typical damsel in distress. You cannot imagine her in a princess dress skipping around. This is not a flowery love story full of sunshine and rainbows. It is a dark fantasy. In fact, Death and Lazarus try to kill each other for the entire beginning of their relationship. Neither one can die so the killing is just a pause in their war while Death tries to kill all the humans and Lazarus tries to stop him. But they were made for each other so the pull is inescapable. Despite being a dark fantasy, there is also light here, goodness, hope, and love. On their way to finding love with each other, Death and Lazarus also try to deal with their issues without magically making them vanish. The storyline is rich with emotion including tender moments, mundane life snippets, violence, some chuckles, and tense scenes. It gives you all the feels - horror, anger, love, sadness, resignation, redemption, and annoyance. Underlying the main storyline is thought provoking realism about the effect humans are having on the world and each other - actions which led to the arrival of the Horsemen - but it does not feel heavy handed. While Death can be read as a stand alone novel, I would encourage you to read all the books in the series as reading the stories together adds additional dimension to the entire story arc.

“𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙚𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙩’𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙮. 𝙄 𝙙𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙬𝙝𝙮, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙄 𝙙𝙤. 𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙖𝙙—𝙨𝙤 𝙨𝙖𝙙—𝙇𝙖𝙯𝙖𝙧𝙪𝙨. 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙚𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙪𝙥 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣.”The emotions I had while reading this book…ugh my heart. Literally put through the wringer 🙃As the final horseman, Death was portrayed through the other books and the ‘final boss’ for lack of a better word. The guy with the final say, so removed from humanity and devoted to his task that he was more ‘other’ than anything. Which in a nutshell, yes he was almost to a devastating fault.However, I really felt like out of all the horsemen, Death was the most human. His emotions - most noticeably his anguished sadness and loneliness - were tangible and easily felt. His FMC and their conflict was engaging and had me laughing out loud at times, and their tension was *chefs kiss*. Their growth as characters is slow and steady and by the end you can’t help but root for everyone even when a certain MC makes horrible, facepalm inducing choices.This was for me, without a doubt, the darkest (and spiciest) book of the series, and moments had me fighting tears because I could just feel the heartbreak. These were balanced by the feel good moments, however even in those you could still sense the undercurrent of it just being a bandaid, and things were still trucking along to the inevitable end. There was a point where I didn’t know if I could finish, as a mom of babies and having gone through a scarily similar experience as a pivotal event in the book. However, glutton for punishment that I am, I wiped my tears and powered through and am happy to say my heart was over full and stitched back together at the end ♥️The entire series is brought full circle in the end and tied up beautifully. These characters have taken a permanent place in my heart and I already can’t wait to revisit them.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

I liked the book a lot!The plot was absolutely amazing! To see them falling in love even when they were opposites in every way as truly amazing!The first 30% of the book was a little dragging but in my opinion it was necessary for Laz, especially, because she needed to have tried everything in her power before succumb to Death. The author couldn’t make it believable if she just accepted her “fate”.So putting all this decisions and the well-being of Ben, was what make it so realistic.What I loved the most was that she wasn’t drove by their attraction, she had morals and purpose above her feelings and Death was everything you imagine in a angel, he was the best!!He got on my nerves sometimes, but he was the best!I love it!I cried in the end!! With sadness and happiness!!I LOVE IT!!

I'm from Mexico and although my English is not the best I couldn't bear to wait for a translation, I squeezed out every drop of my knowledge of the language and read the entire book in one night, I couldn't stop, this was an emotional journey that made me cry the whole book, The way in which the meaning of death is approached is a gift and will surely represent a great consolation for those of us who have lost someone... Unconditional Love is always the key, That's what stays with me, I can't imagine a better ending for this series.

To paraphrase from the book, this (and the entire series), was everything I never knew I needed or wanted! I have been captivated throughout and this epic tale of humanity, life, love and death has consumed me. There were points in this book where I laughed out loud and others where I shed tears. What more could you ask for from a book?! Absolutely brilliant and beautiful.

This is the final book in the series, maybe don’t go into this review if you’ve not read the others. There will be spoilers.Except Blood and Sin, Reaping Angels and The Vanishing Girl series, I’ve read every single series released by Laura. Usually, I start the series as it releases and finish it as it ends (if that makes sense). But for some reason, I just veered straight out of finishing the conclusion to The Four Horsemen series. Maybe I wasn’t ready to say goodbye? I’m not sure. Either way, I started this book and was about twenty percent or so into it when Bespelled landed in my Kindle. Yeah, I jumped ship super fast.Reading two books by the same author so close together made me realize how well she’s written the tone of this book to match the world. While the Bewitched series has so much humour and lightness mixed with some dark fantasy elements, The Four Horsemen Series does not make light of anything. Yes, there’s some witty banter, but for the most part the pain, destruction and desperation colour every interaction and fill every page. You never forget.This book handles a very sensitive theme if you think about it. There’s God, there’s religion, there’s duty and love; and how all this leads to salvation and not the end of the world. I think Laura pulls heart strings all the time, but in this series there’s something heartbreaking about the apocalyptic world that can never be overlooked. There’s no moment of happiness that can truly take away from it, and I love that Laura has captured that so well.I’ve always been intrigued how Laura writes her characters and she really set herself up for a challenge writing this series. If you think about it (and I’ve mentioned this before) this series follows the same general plot: Horseman appears on earth, needs to be stopped, they find someone who represents and shows them the worthiness of humankind, they give up their duty, become human and live with their partners. It’s a difficult series to write simply because it’s so easy for each book to read like its predecessor—be it the way the plot unfolds, the characters sound/react etc.But each character brings a lot to their book. So much emotion, internal struggle, strife and victory. Who truly wins and who truly loses in an apocalypse and what are you willing to do to prove the worth of something like humanity that has its moments of unworthiness?I love the different sides to everything that Laura always ensures we see. There’re no rose tinted glasses here. She shows us that we are everything: worthy, unworthy, good, kind, terrible, cruel. But in the end, it always comes down to love and that’s what Death is about too.I’m trying to recall if all the protagonists in the previous book felt this way; but there’s a certain tenor of vulnerability in both Death and Lazarus that really stood out to me. As much as I found the way they pit themselves against one another and the odd match they made in strength interesting, I found their slow but inevitable descent into their emotions heartbreakingly tender.The fact that this book was named Death is so…perfect. The fact that Death is the last Horseman is so perfect. Everything about this series tied up so well and I can’t wait to see everything that Laura writes in the future. She’s always written books for my heart and this series was no different.I personally feel Death was the most poetic of all the books; and this holds true ’til the very end. The tears that the ending brought me, I didn’t expect and wasn’t prepared for. The cameos was a lovely additions. *teary eyed smile*Five stars! This whole series is on KU and is absolutely free for Kindle Unlimited subscribers. Happy reading. Please check trigger warnings! This whole series is very graphic, has lots of gore, violence, death etc.